News15 March 2006: FreeMarker 2.3.6 is out!
This release contains bugfixes and a few new features. You don't have to use
[#ftl] anymore to switch to
alternative syntax
(like Important: If you are using 2.3.5, please update it now! 2.3.5 was deleted days after its release because of a serious bug in it. Sorry for the confusion... 15 February 2006: Hibernate tools chooses FreeMarker instead of VelocityHibernate tools chooses FreeMarker instead of Velocity. You can read more about this decision of here. 18 July 2005: WikiWe have a Wiki at http://freemarker.org/wiki. It will remain empty, if you don't fill it with content! What is FreeMarker?FreeMarker is a "template engine"; a generic tool to generate text output (anything from HTML to autogenerated source code) based on templates. It's a Java package, a class library for Java programmers. It's not an application for end-users in itself, but something that programmers can embed into their products. FreeMarker is designed to be practical for the generation of HTML Web pages, particularly by servlet-based applications following the MVC (Model View Controller) pattern. The idea behind using the MVC pattern for dynamic Web pages is that you separate the designers (HTML authors) from the programmers. Everybody works on what they are good at. Designers can change the appearance of a page without programmers having to change or recompile code, because the application logic (Java programs) and page design (FreeMarker templates) are separated. Templates do not become polluted with complex program fragments. This separation is useful even for projects where the programmer and the HMTL page author is the same person, since it helps to keep the application clear and easily maintainable. Although FreeMarker has some programming capabilities, it is not a full-blown programming language like PHP. Instead, Java programs prepare the data to be displayed, and FreeMarker just generates textual pages that display the prepared data using templates. ![]() FreeMarker is not a Web application framework. It is suitable as a component in a Web application framework, but the FreeMarker engine itself knows nothing about HTTP or servlets. It simply generates text. As such, it is perfectly usable in non-web application environments as well. Note, however, that we provide out-of-the-box solutions for using FreeMarker as the view component of Model 2 frameworks (e.g. Struts), which also let you use JSP taglibs in the templates.
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